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R. EMMETT POTTS Registered 20 horses who will carry the colors of the Bomar Stable during the Detroit meet. School for Jockeys Set for Operation Detroit Again to Conduct Classes and Offer Races Only for Novice Riders FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., May 21. Novice riders from the Detroit Jockey School will be more in evidence this year than before when the 73-day session opens at the Motor City oval on Saturday. Tremendously successful and popular in past years, the institution has been taken around the rough edges and this year will be in charge of trainer Harry" Trotsek. New rules governing the riding concessions granted these novices are being drafted and will be submitted to the Michigan Racing Commission through that bodys steward, the veteran Joseph A. Murphy, who has been a stout booster for the school since its inception. Special races have been programmed in which only novices compete. Special weight concessions are granted them when they compete against older riders in open competition. These novices, however, do not come up to their first races as green boys. Under the guidance of Trotsek, himself a former rider, the lads have been carefully schooled from the bottom up and when they ride their first races they lack only the experience of actual competition. Trotsek in Charge Trotsek has 14 lads with him at Detroit, although all are not quite ready to ride. He also has applications "from more than 50 enthusiastic youths for enrollment in the school. Most of the boys have been with Trotsek for more than a year and their backgrounds are varied. There are the brothers Louis and William Cook, 19 and 17. respectively who have been around for a year. They came from the coal mining country of Kentucky. Peter Clifford, 20, is an evacuee from England and has been galloping horses for four years. Trotsek predicts a bright future for this boy. Charles Richmond, 16, is from Dayton, Ohio and is a brother of jockey William Richmond. Jerry Schrek is a natural lightweight with a years experience, who was recommended by jockey Paul Keiper. He weighs 85 pounds. The local touch is added by Edward Stoner and Jack Freels, both from Detroit. Jim Marler is a Louisville boy who rode in a few novice races here last year. Jimmy Duff is a 90-pounder who has been riding quarter horses, including the celebrated Joe Palooka, in Florida. Jimmy Ross was born to the saddle. His father is the former jockey Richard Ross. Frank Perticari hails from Washington, D. C, and has had two years experience. Trotsek developed such riders as Clayton Phillips, Joe DeLucia, Maurice Berger, Harry Hart, Jack Favorite, Charles Mullins and Joe Sneller, while fi?bm the Detroit Jockey School have come such pilots as Joe Li Causi, Terry Sullivan, George Monson, George Potter, Jimmy Reynolds, Don Boston and others. With Trotsek at the helm, a particularly bright future can be envisaged for this years crop of novices.
